Pappa Tarahumara

Bay Area Premiere!
Pappa Tarahumara
Ship in a View
Thu, Feb 19Sat, Feb 21, 2009, 8pm • Novellus Theater at YBCA
$30 Regular, $25 Member/Student/Senior/Teacher

From esteemed Japanese director Hiroshi Koike and his dance-theater troupe Pappa Tarahumara comes Ship in a View, an ethereal spectacle making its Bay Area premiere at YBCA. Drawing on memories of his Japanese seaside home, Koike creates a haunting dream: a small, dark vessel sails across the stage; eerie foghorns and lamentations fill the air as dancers emerge from the shadows. Ship in a View is a hypnotic remembrance of his seaside town, where vignettes small and large—a woman calling out to sell soybeans, a brewing storm—create a ghostly ritual of remembering, of both connecting to and separating from the past. With a background in directing for Japanese television, Koike infuses performance with drama and momentum, building from a sublime work moving at the pace of Noh theater to a vibrant, transcendental climax. Ship in a View, a surreal and devastatingly beautiful journey.

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[frandelgadillo]

@azulmandala también lo recuerdo, es de las cosas mas bellas que he visto en mi vida.

[azulmandala]

I love Pappa Tarahumara they came to Mexico a few years ago, and I remember them so well, they filled my soul with this beautiful choreography, please come back to Mexico!!!

[chrisattack]

I remember i attend the Pappa Tarahumara Dance Workshop In Cultural Center of the Philippines Year Bulwagang Francisca Reyes

December 6-8, 2002

Artistic Director: Hiroshi Koike. I like the Japanese Modern Abstract etc. Dances. WOW

[ithinkilikethis]

wtf.